Hello Group

I am sure some of you may have been curious as to what happened regarding to my request for help on UEFI.

As it turned out, the OS and motherboard had gotten corupted. One of the factors was the Dell all in one model (32bit), never truly shut down, and it was a first generation Windows 8, upgraded to 8.1.

I ended up taking the unit apart and taking the coin size battery off the mother board and put eveything back together. Then as we all expected, I was able to change the bois/firmware back to legacy. Since the Windows 8 would only work in UEFI, I formated and put Ubuntu 14 on it, and still it doesn't truly shutdown. I have to unplug it.

I have never come across a computer that could not truly shut down until now.

Cheers

Abby

Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 1:23 PM
From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca, "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org>
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] UEFI bios/firmware

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:01:24AM -0400, phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
> I had this same problem on an Acer laptop until I discovered you need to
> enter a password and enable the password.
>
> When you are finished disabling things, you can then disable the password.

So you have to set a supervisor/admin password for the bios before you
can change the secureboot setting? Crazy. :)

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Len Sorensen
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